The Time To Pet alternative built for solo pet pros

Great for a team of 20. A lot to pay for a team of one.

Time To Pet is a capable, well-liked platform, and much of what makes it capable is built for businesses with employees: staff scheduling, per-user seats, manager permissions, GPS staff tracking and a back office for dispatching other people's visits. It's earned its reputation, with one of the highest ratings in the category (4.9 across 270+ reviews on Capterra). If you employ walkers, that depth is worth paying for.

If you're solo, though, you're paying for a control room you'll never sit in. Time To Pet's Team plan adds roughly $16/mo per active staff member on top of a $40 base, and even the flat Solo plan lands around $50/mo. Pupline strips it back to the job one person actually does, book it, run it, get paid, and charges one flat $12.99/mo for all of it.

The 2026 pricing, tier by tier

Here is what Time To Pet costs as of July 2026, from its public pricing: Lite is $25/mo (a scaled-back, one-person plan), Solo is about $50/mo (one person, full features), the Team plan is a $40/mo base plus roughly $16/mo per active staff member, and a Facility plan is $79/mo. Annual billing (pay for ten months, get twelve) is offered on Lite and Solo only, and two-way text messaging is a $10/mo add-on on top of your plan. The free trial is 14 days.

Pupline is one flat $12.99/mo with every feature switched on, scheduling, client and pet records, photo and video report cards, invoicing, the Vault, vaccination reminders and client messaging, with no add-on for texts, no per-user fee, and a 30-day free trial that needs no card. For a single sitter or walker, the gap over a year is real money rather than a rounding error.

Your clients don't download anything

Team-oriented software tends to lean on a client portal or app: another login your clients have to keep, another password they'll forget right before a holiday booking. Time To Pet gives pet parents a dedicated app and web portal to book and pay through, which suits a company with hundreds of regulars. Pupline takes the opposite stance, with no mandatory client portal. Clients get a private link when there's something to do, fill in a Care Card, view a photo report card, read an invoice, and that's the whole experience for them.

When you do want online booking, Pupline's is optional and no-login too: a client requests a time from a public link with no account, and you confirm or decline. For a solo pro, that no-login flow usually gets far better follow-through than asking every owner to create and remember another login. It's off until you turn it on.

Payments: your processor, not a mandatory one

Time To Pet steers you toward its own integrated processor, Time To Pet Payments, at about 3% + $0.30 per card transaction (and roughly 1.3% + $0.30 for ACH) as of July 2026. It's convenient and keeps everything in one place, but it's a fixed cut of every charge you run through it.

Pupline processes nothing in-app on purpose. It records how you were paid, card on your own reader, bank transfer, Venmo, Zelle or cash, and keeps 0% of it. You bring the processor you already use and keep the rate you already have, which for a lot of solo pros is the cheaper end of the deal.

What each one really costs.